Manoeuvres On Future Flights’

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29901, 15 August 1962, Page 15

Manoeuvres On Future Flights’

(A.Z rrest, Association —Copyright) MOSCOW, August 11. A Russian scientist, Evgeny Fyodorov, said in “Pravda” today that future Russian cosmonauts would “manoeuvre, change orbits, assemble in groups and assemble different structures in space,” the British United Press reported.

He gave no timetable for the programme but said the reliable communications in space that were the prerequisite for such operations had been established for the first time by the present twoman space achievement. Fyodorov said that the Soviet people respected the American astronauts, Colonel John Glenn and LieutenantCommander Scott Carpenter, "but they cannot but express surprise at the lack of ceremony with which their lives were risked."

He said: "Glenn's flight was postponed nine times. Carpenter nearly burned and then nearly drowned, and what can be said about the defective rockets launched with nuclear warheads and flying God knows where and dropping in the sea.” “Pravda” said today that the Soviet Union thought only of the good of mankind when it sent ships aloft, but that was not so with the United States “All the world, all our planet, can remain calm when the heroic envoys of the Soviet people send their hearty messages of good morning and good night to the earth from the vastnesses of outer space. “At the same time the peoples know that the United

States does not think of peace and progress, of human happiness. when it holds criminal thermonuclear explosions in outer space, when it sends up spy-in-the-sky satellites. when it plans to set up space war bases.” it said. Optimism In America IfA’.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK August 14 United States space programme leaders are still optimistic about chances of being the first to land astronauts on the moon. The Soviet Union’s success in putting two manned spacecraft into orbit close together has neither surprised them nor caused great concern, according to the "New York Times.” Quoting authoritative sources, it said that space officials argued that a rendezvous and the actual joining of spaceships tn flight, while an essential feature of the United States lunar programme and probably any parallel Soviet effort, were not the “pacing item” in the race to the moon.